The rise of post-truth politics marks the most serious crisis of
Western liberal democracy since the end of the Cold War. The
decline of trust in expert knowledge and mainstream media, the rise
of social media devoid of a gatekeeping function and the growth of
covert external interference in electoral processes have led to
fragmentation, polarization and destabilization of Western
democratic systems. What makes post-truth politics so difficult to
resist is its apparently democratic character that claims to
challenge bureaucratic depoliticisation, the rule of experts and
the disappearance of alternatives to the hegemonic policy.
Biopolitics after Truth refutes this interpretation, arguing that
the post-truth ideology leads to the degradation of the public
sphere that is essential to democratic governance. Rather than
enable resistance to expertise-based biopolitical
governmentalities, truth denialism dissolves the only framework
where their contestation and transformation could take place. In
contrast, Biopolitics after Truth argues for a positive role of
truth-telling in the democratization of biopolitical governance.
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